OpenAI closes in on largest VC round of all time: in talks to raise $6.5 billion ($250M minimum investment) from investors at a valuation of $150B /Axios, The Information, Bloomberg/
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@miramurati: I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today.
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@sama: I replied with this. Mira, thank you for everything.
It’s hard to overstate how much Mira has meant to OpenAI, our mission, and to us all personally.
I feel tremendous gratitude towards her for what she has helped us build and accomplish, but I most of all feel personal gratitude towards her for the support and love during all the hard times. I am excited for what she’ll do next.
We’ll say more about the transition plans soon, but for now, I want to take a moment to just feel thanks.
@sama (update; 9/27/24): i just posted this note to openai:
Hi All–
Mira has been instrumental to OpenAI’s progress and growth the last 6.5 years; she has been a hugely significant factor in our development from an unknown research lab to an important company.
When Mira informed me this morning that she was leaving, I was saddened but of course support her decision. For the past year, she has been building out a strong bench of leaders that will continue our progress.
I also want to share that Bob and Barret have decided to depart OpenAI. Mira, Bob, and Barret made these decisions independently of each other and amicably, but the timing of Mira’s decision was such that it made sense to now do this all at once, so that we can work together for a smooth handover to the next generation of leadership.
I am extremely grateful to all of them for their contributions.
Being a leader at OpenAI is all-consuming. On one hand it’s a privilege to build AGI and be the fastest-growing company that gets to put our advanced research in the hands of hundreds of millions of people. On the other hand it’s relentless to lead a team through it—and they have gone above and beyond the call of duty for the company.
Mark is going to be our new SVP of Research and will now lead the research org in partnership with Jakub as Chief Scientist. This has been our long-term succession plan for Bob someday; although it’s happening sooner than we thought, I couldn’t be more excited that Mark is stepping into the role. Mark obviously has deep technical expertise, but he has also learned how to be a leader and manager in a very impressive way over the past few years.
Josh Achiam is going to take on a new role as Head of Mission Alignment, working across the company to ensure that we get all pieces (and culture) right to be in a place to succeed at the mission.
Kevin and Srinivas will continue to lead the Applied team.
Matt Knight will be our Chief Information Security Officer having already served in this capacity for a long time. This has been our plan for quite some time.
Mark, Jakub, Kevin, Srinivas, Matt, and Josh will report to me. I have over the past year or so spent most of my time on the non-technical parts of our organization; I am now looking forward to spending most of my time on the technical and product parts of the company.
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Leadership changes are a natural part of companies, especially companies that grow so quickly and are so demanding. I obviously won’t pretend it’s natural for this one to be so abrupt, but we are not a normal company, and I think the reasons Mira explained to me (there is never a good time, anything not abrupt would have leaked, and she wanted to do this while OpenAI was in an upswing) make sense. We can both talk about this more tomorrow during all-hands.
Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication.
Sam
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☑️ #149 Sep 21, 2024
After Apple, Jony Ive is building an empire of his own
nytimes.com: [Excerpt] Five years after leaving Apple, the iPhone designer is forging a new life in San Francisco, one imaginative building at a time.
Dressed in a white, long-sleeve, hooded T-shirt, stone chinos and Clarks Wallabee shoes, Ive said he wanted to draw creative types to the edge of downtown. He has been turning one of his buildings into a home base for his agency’s work on automotive, fashion and travel products. Another is the headquarters of a new artificial intelligence device company that he is developing with OpenAI.
T-Mobile and OpenAI Join Forces to Revolutionize the Customer Experience with First-Ever Intent-Driven AI-Decisioning Platform
t-mobile.com: [Excerpt] World’s most innovative AI company and most customer-centric wireless provider team up to completely change how customers are cared for; building predictive platform that uses real-time data to understand their intent, proactively solve pain points and take action.
SAN FRANCISCO — Sept. 18, 2024 — T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and OpenAI have forged a groundbreaking multi-year agreement that will revolutionize the customer experience and reset customer success benchmarks for companies around the world. Combining T-Mobile’s deep expertise in cultivating customer relationships with OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI technology knowledge and world-class research and development experts, the two companies are custom-building the first intent-driven AI-decisioning platform of its kind, called IntentCX. With secure access to T-Mobile data and its ability to comprehend customer intent and sentiment in real time, IntentCX will have the ability to apply meaningful understanding and knowledge of the customer to every interaction, offer solutions to resolve issues and even take proactive actions on their behalf. The initial goal is to apply the most advanced technology and business processes, to maximize the success of every customer’s journey with T-Mobile, and in the process, create a blueprint applicable across industries.
@hedgevision: Tiger Global will invest in OpenAI’s $150 billion funding round.
The $150 billion valuation makes OpenAI the third most valuable private company in the world, trailing behind SpaceX at $200 billion and TikTok owner ByteDance at $225 billion.
The company will invest to accelerate the development and adoption of AI and advanced technologies through world-leading partnerships both in the UAE and globally. MGX’s investment strategy will focus on three main areas: AI infrastructure (including data centers and connectivity); semiconductors (including logic and memory chip design and manufacturing); and AI core technologies and applications (including AI models, software, data, life sciences and robotics). The company will build on Abu Dhabi’s existing investments in these areas and deploy capital alongside leading international technology and investment companies.
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☑️ #146 Sep 12, 2024
Say hello to OpenAI o1
Say hello to OpenAI o1—a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. This new series of AI models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math.
wsj.com: (8/29/24): [Exceprt] Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI. Tech giants would join multibillion-dollar funding round alongside Microsoft, Thrive Capital.
windowscentral.com (partially clickbait): Microsoft, Apple, and NVIDIA will reportedly bail out OpenAI from the shackles of bankruptcy, pushing the ChatGPT maker’s market valuation to over $100 billion.
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☑️ #144 Aug 29, 2024
U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI
nist.gov : [Excerpt] These first-of-their-kind agreements between the U.S. government and industry will help advance safe and trustworthy AI innovation for all.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Today, the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced agreements that enable formal collaboration on AI safety research, testing and evaluation with both Anthropic and OpenAI.
Each company’s Memorandum of Understanding establishes the framework for the U.S. AI Safety Institute to receive access to major new models from each company prior to and following their public release. The agreements will enable collaborative research on how to evaluate capabilities and safety risks, as well as methods to mitigate those risks.
OpenAI says ChatGPT usage has doubled since last year November
axios.com: [Excerpt] OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had last November.
OpenAl said on Thursday that its artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly active users, Axios reported. The number was doubled compared to a year ago, the company said, adding that 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its products.
The big picture:
The battle for users remains hotly contested, with Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and Meta all eager to get people to choose their chatbots.
Meta said earlier on Thursday adoption of its open source Llama models has also grown sharply. Usage at the major cloud service providers has doubled between May and July of this year with the release of Llama 3.1.
Maker of ChatGPT leaves 37K sf empty in Pioneer Building
bizjournals.com (8/22/24): [Excerpt] OpenAI departs Mission headquarters building linked to Elon Musk. The company's departure from the building comes as it is actively seeking to grow its footprint in San Francisco. Here's what we know.
Source: Colin McRae via American City Business Journal
therealdeal.com (8/26/24): [Excerpt] OpenAI exits San Francisco HQ after Elon Musk stops paying rent. Maker of ChatGPT leaves 37K sf empty in Pioneer Building, now available for sublease.
It’s not clear where OpenAI will move its headquarters.
In April, the company behind ChatGPT was nearing a deal to lease a 315,000-square-foot office building from Divco West at 550 Terry Francois Boulevard, at Old Navy’s former headquarters in Mission Bay.
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☑️ #141 Aug 22, 2024 🔴 rumor
Exclusive: OpenAI names Hannah Wong as chief communications officer
axios.com: [Excerpt] OpenAI is elevating its communication function by naming Hannah Wong as its first chief communications officer, the company told Axios first.
Context: Wong, who joined OpenAI in 2021 from Apple, will continue to report to CEO Sam Altman and will oversee media relations, internal communications, strategic messaging, events, brand design, social media, community and talent partnerships
condenast.com: [Excerpt] This partnership recognizes that the exceptional content produced by Condé Nast and our many titles cannot be replaced, and is a step toward making sure our technology-enabled future is one that is created responsibly. It is just the beginning and we will continue what we started in Washington earlier this year - the fight for fair deals and partnerships across the industry until all entities developing and deploying artificial intelligence take seriously, as OpenAI has, the rights of publishers.
openai.com: [Excerpt] We’re strengthening our governance with expertise in AI safety and alignment. Zico will also join the Safety & Security Committee.
Zico will also join the Board’s Safety and Security Committee alongside directors Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, Paul Nakasone, Nicole Seligman and Sam Altman (CEO) and OpenAI technical experts. The committee is responsible for making recommendations on critical safety and security decisions for all OpenAI projects.
Musk’s new lawsuit takes aim at OpenAI’s deal with Microsoft and the definition of artificial general intelligence.
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OVERVIEW: Musk vs OpenAI – the billionaire’s 'hot and cold' games (update; 8/15/24): [Excerpts] On August 5, billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk brought back his lawsuitagainst artificial intelligence research organization and ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc., alleging that the company, alongside two of its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, strayed away from the original goal of developing AI technology to benefit the world and turned to profit making. Musk has been going back and forth with his lawsuits, raising the first one with similar accusations in March 2024.
In June 2024, Musk dropped his lawsuit giving no explanations. Prior to this, legal experts doubted his success in the proceeding. As quoted by Wired, Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School, called into question the entrepreneur's claims, explaining that the agreement Musk was talking about seemed to be non-existent, as the document was not attached to the suit. This means that if the two sides made a verbal agreement, it would be difficult for Musk to request anything from OpenAI and win a legal battle as these types of agreements are hard to argue in court, as opposed to written ones. In a new suit, launched in August, the billionaire now claims Altman deceived him by saying that the focus of OpenAI would be on "safety and openness for the benefit of humanity." The lawsuit accuses Altman and Brockman of fraud and racketeering, mentioning that the deceit is of "Shakespearean proportions." Marc Toberoff, Musk's lawyer, told the New York Times that this lawsuit is "much more forceful" compared to the previous. Read more
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☑️ #137 Aug 5, 2024
Trio of Leaders Leave OpenAI
@marketinsiders: From challenger to contender, Anthropic has yet to be rivaled and still the best, most usable model right now.
@gdb: I’m taking a sabbatical through end of year. First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago. The mission is far from complete; we still have a safe AGI to build.
@johnschulman2: I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today:
I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided to pursue this goal at Anthropic, where I believe I can gain new perspectives and do research alongside people deeply engaged with the topics I'm most interested in. To be clear, I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research at OpenAI. On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area. My decision is a personal one, based on how I want to focus my efforts in the next phase of my career.
I joined OpenAI almost 9 years ago as part of the founding team after grad school. It's the first and only company where I've ever worked, other than an internship. It's also been quite a lot of fun. I'm grateful to Sam and Greg for recruiting me back at the beginning, and Mira and Bob for putting a lot of faith in me, bringing great opportunities and helping me successfully navigate various challenges. I'm proud of what we've all achieved together at OpenAI; building an unusual and unprecedented company with a public benefit mission.
I am confident that OpenAI and the teams I was part of will continue to thrive without me. Post-training is in good hands and has a deep bench of amazing talent. I get too much credit for ChatGPT -- Barret has done an incredible job building the team into the incredibly competent operation it is now, with Liam, Luke, and others. I've been heartened to see the alignment team coming together with some promising projects. With leadership from Mia, Boaz and others, I believe the team is in very capable hands. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to participate in such an important part of history and I'm proud of what we've achieved together. I'll still be rooting for you all, even while working elsewhere.
@aisupremacy: OpenAI is doing SearchGPT, advanced Voice Mode, and a very affordable “GPT-4o Mini” - fairly great potential products.
But CapEx of Meta, Microsoft and others is going to hit a wall eventually with all the promises, due to a lack of revenue generated.
On Microsoft’s earnings call the CFO made a lot of amusing statements. CFO Amy Hood pointed out that a lot of Microsoft's AI spending will be monetized "over 15 years and beyond."
Curiously an OpenAI board member said AGI might be in 5 to 15 years, a lot longer than OpenAI had initially claimed.
@steph_palazzolo: Scoop: OpenAI has removed Aleksander Mądry from his role as the head of the preparedness team. It's the latest in a series of personnel changes and departures of safety-focused researchers, and could raise eyebrows among federal regulators
@sama: this is wrong. aleksander is working on a new and v important research project, and joaquin and lilian are taking over the preparedness team as part of unifying our safety work. aleksander will continue to support preparedness work in various ways.
ChatGPT maker OpenAl reassigned the executive responsible for overseeing its artificial intelligence safety to another position within its research organization, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person who saw the company's notice to employees.
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☑️ #134 Jul 23, 2024
Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe
washingtonpost.com: [Excerpt] Senators demanded in a Monday letter that OpenAI turn over data about its efforts to build safe and secure artificial intelligence, following employee warnings that the company rushed through safety-testing of its latest AI model, which were detailed in The Washington Post earlier this month.
Led by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the five lawmakers asked OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman to outline how the maker of ChatGPT plans to meet “public commitments” to ensure its AI does not cause harm, such as teaching users to build bioweapons or helping hackers develop new kinds of cyberattacks, in the letter obtained exclusively by The Post.
@SenBrianSchatz: Like @OpenAI has said, its technology holds immense promise and extraordinary potential risk. So it’s critical that it lives up to its safety commitments and allows employees to raise concerns about its practices
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OpenAI Revenue Breakdown
futuresearch.ai: [Excerpt] As of June 2024, how much revenue comes from GPT Plus, Teams, Enterprise, and the API? How many paying users are there?
Make a tree. FutureSearch reports the top level answer as simply as possible.
The full justification is shown across a linked set of pages, each of which answers just one question.
If you just want the answer, you need only read the top node. But if you’re curious, say, about how ChatGPT Plus usage has grown since the last known data point, you can click through to that question.
What portion of OpenAl's $3.4B ARR, reported on June 12 2024, comes from APl usage? 15 %
What was the ARR from ChatGPT Plus as of June 12, 2024? 1.9 billion USD/year
By what amount did the number of ChatGPT Plus subscribers change between April 1, 2024 and June 12, 2024? 920,000 subscribers
What percentage of ChatGPT Plus subscribers were from the US at the start of April 2024? 57 %
What was the ARR from ChatGPT Enterprise as of June 12, 2024? 714 million USD/year
What was the ARR from ChatGPT Team as of June 12, 2024? 290 million USD/year
The FutureSearch dropdown subquestion menu allows users to research the components of the question that they care most about.
OpenAI Has Talked to Broadcom About Developing New AI Chip
theinformation.com: [Excerpt] Last year, as the world's top artificial intelligence developers were racing to speed up their work using ever-bigger clusters of computers, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was trying to play a longer game. He decided to start a new company that could develop and produce a new Al chip and help set up chip factories to make them and data centers to house them.
His plan has taken numerous twists and turns since then. But there are signs his effort to build a new is taking shape, starting within OpenAI rather than via a separate venture.
The development of custom AI chips by OpenAI reflects a broader trend in the tech industry, with companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta already having their own AI-specific processors. This shift towards custom hardware solutions aims to optimize performance and reduce costs in AI development. If successful, OpenAI's initiative could disrupt the current AI chip market dominated by Nvidia. The potential impact extends beyond OpenAI, as it could lead to advancements in AI model training and inference, potentially accelerating the pace of AI innovation across various sectors. Additionally, this move aligns with the increasing strategic importance of AI hardware in maintaining technological leadership, as evidenced by recent U.S. export restrictions on advanced AI chips to China. Read more
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☑️ #131 Jul 17, 2024
Restrictive employment, severance and nondisclosure agreements
washingtonpost.com: [Excerpt] OpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the artificial intelligence company illegally prohibited its employees from warning regulators about the grave risks its technology may pose to humanity, calling for an investigation.
The whistleblowers said OpenAI issued its employees overly restrictive employment, severance and nondisclosure agreements that could have led to penalties against workers who raised concerns about OpenAI to federal regulators, according to a seven-page letter sent to the SEC commissioner earlier this month that referred to the formal complaint. The letter was obtained exclusively by The Washington Post.
OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory announce bioscience research partnership
openai.com: [Excerpt] OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory are developing evaluations to understand how multimodal AI models can be used safely by scientists in laboratory settings.
Our upcoming evaluation with Los Alamos will be the first experiment to test multimodal frontier models in a lab setting by assessing the abilities of both experts and novices to perform and troubleshoot a safe protocol consisting of standard laboratory experimental tasks. These tasks are intended to serve as a proxy for more complex tasks that pose a dual use concern. Tasks may include transformation (e.g., introducing foreign genetic material into a host organism; cell culture (e.g., maintaining and propagating cells in vitro), and cell separation (e.g., through centrifugation). By examining the uplift in task completion and accuracy enabled by GPT-4o, we aim to quantify and assess how frontier models can upskill both existing professionals / PhDs as well as novices in real-world biological tasks.
OpenAI board will not have Microsoft and Apple as observers
ft.com: [Excerpt] ChatGPT maker plans strategy to engage crucial partners as regulatory scrutiny of sector increases.
Apple had also been expected to take an observer role on OpenAI’s board as part of a deal to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone maker’s devices, but would not do so, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Apple declined to comment.
OpenAI would instead host regular meetings with partners such as Microsoft and Apple and investors Thrive Capital and Khosla Ventures — part of “a new approach to informing and engaging key strategic partners” under Sarah Friar, the former Nextdoor boss who was hired as its first chief financial officer last month, an OpenAI spokesperson said.
@markgurman: NEW: Apple will get a board observer seat at OpenAI later this year as part its partnership for Apple Intelligence. The person getting the seat: Phil Schiller, the head of the App Store and former marketing chief.
apple.com: [Excerpt] Phil Schiller is an Apple Fellow, responsible for leading the App Store and Apple Events. Phil has helped guide Apple’s products and marketing for 30 years, most recently as the senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
The Center for Investigative Reporting Sues OpenAI, Microsoft for Copyright Violations
motherjones.com: [Excerpt] AI Giant Never Sought Permission, Nor Offered Compensation to Use Nonprofit News Organization’s Content.
The lawsuit is based on OpenAI’s violations of the Copyright Act, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Mother Jones magazine was first published in 1976, and the content of each issue is copyrighted. CIR has been publishing online since 1993 and its radio show, Reveal, launched in 2013.
When Microsoft formed an alliance in 2019 with OpenAl to resell the startup's artificial intelligence, it brought the reputation, connections and sales muscle to the table that seemed key for winning deals with large customers. Turns out OpenAl itself has gotten pretty good at cutting those deals.
openai.com: [Excerpt] New access to current and historic content from TIME's extensive archives from the last 101 years to enhance OpenAI products and display in response to user inquiries.
The partnership will also enable TIME to gain access to OpenAI's technology to develop new products for its audiences, along with the opportunity to provide vital feedback and share practical applications to refine and enhance the delivery of journalism in ChatGPT and other OpenAI products and shape the future of news experiences.
OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China
restofworld.org: [Excerpt] A milestone in the militarization of AI.
Consumer-facing applications like ChatGPT have been unavailable in China more or less from the beginning. But the API is more important than the consumer-facing applications, powering apps to fill out forms, flag problems in internal data, or manage other kinds of automation at scale. Right now, Chinese developers still have access to those tools, and they’re using them — but they’ve got only a week and a half left.
schneier.com: [Excerpt] Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone has joined the board of OpenAI.
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☑️ #120 Jun 24, 2024
Multi is joining OpenAI
multi.app: [Excerpt] What if desktop computers were inherently multiplayer? What if the operating system placed people on equal footing to apps? Those were the questions we explored in building Multi, and before that, Remotion.
Recently, we’ve been increasingly asking ourselves how we should work with computers. Not on or using computers, but truly with computers. With AI. We believe it’s one of the most important product questions of our time.
And so, we’re beyond excited to share that Multi is joining OpenAI!
Unfortunately, this means we’re sunsetting Multi. We’ve closed new team signups, and currently active teams will be able to use the app until July 24, 2024, after which we’ll delete all user data. If you need help or more time finding a replacement, email alexander@multi.app. We’re happy to suggest alternatives depending on what exactly you loved about Multi, and we can also grant extensions on a case by case basis.
Thank you to everybody who used Multi. It was a privilege building with you, and we learnt a ton from you. We'll miss your feedback and bug reports, but we can’t wait to show you what we’re up to next.
Rockset will become part of OpenAI and power the retrieval infrastructure backing OpenAI’s product suite. We’ll be helping OpenAI solve the hard database problems that AI apps face at massive scale.
Existing Rockset customers will experience no immediate change. We will gradually transition current customers off Rockset and are committed to ensuring a smooth process.
OpenAI COO, Brad Lightcap, explains how Rockset will fit in at OpenAI:
“Rockset’s infrastructure empowers companies to transform their data into actionable intelligence. We’re excited to bring these benefits to our customers by integrating Rockset’s foundation into OpenAI products.”
Bringing cancer expertise to a doctor near you: Color’s copilot and partnership with OpenAI
color.com: [Excerpt] Bringing cancer expertise to a doctor near you: Color’s Copilot and partnership with OpenAI.
What’s next?
Color is taking a measured approach in rolling out the copilot, using a staged model standard in patient care settings that iteratively evaluates and validates at each implementation phase.
We are starting with an initial phase-in of the copilot with Color Medical physicians applying the tool to a limited number of cases that originate from our cancer management program. These cases receive several layers of quality assurance to ensure that we are performing at a level equal to or better-than what we would get without the tool.
Through the second half of 2024, we anticipate Color’s copilot will have supported over 200,000 patient cases in generating AI personalized care plans, with physician oversight.
@genuineImpact: Top 20 start-up AI companies have raised a total of $38.3 billion.
Nearly one-third of that total comes from OpenAI, thanks to about $10 billion from Microsoft. Other rising AI firms like Anthropic ($7.7 billion) and Elon Musk's xAI ($6.1 billion) have also contributed significantly.
Interestingly, the well-known image generation AI, Midjourney, has never raised any funding.
OpenAI’s annualized revenue doubles to $3.4 Billion since late 2023
theinformation.com: OpenAI has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $3.4 billion in the past six months or so, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has told staff, a sign that growth in the ChatGPT developer’s business is accelerating despite intensifying competition.
Annualized revenue—a measure of the past month’s revenue multiplied by 12—was $1.6 billion in late 2023, The Information previously reported, and about $1 billion last summer. That rapid growth reflects how quickly businesses and individuals have incorporated OpenAI’s conversational AI and chatbot in their work.
apple.com: [Excerpt] Apple is integrating ChatGPT access into experiences within iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, allowing users to access its expertise — as well as its image- and document-understanding capabilities — without needing to jump between tools.
With ChatGPT from OpenAI integrated into Siri and Writing Tools, you get even more expertise when it might be helpful for you — no need to jump between tools. Siri can tap into ChatGPT for certain requests, including questions about photos or documents. And with Compose in Writing Tools, you can create and illustrate original content from scratch.
You control when ChatGPT is used and will be asked before any of your information is shared. Anyone can access ChatGPT for free, without creating an account. ChatGPT subscribers can connect accounts to access paid features within these experiences
Source: Apple, Inc.
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A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence (6/4/24): [Excerpt] We are current and former employees at frontier AI companies, and we believe in the potential of AI technology to deliver unprecedented benefits to humanity.
We also understand the serious risks posed by these technologies. These risks range from the further entrenchment of existing inequalities, to manipulation and misinformation, to the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction. AI companies themselves have acknowledged these risks [1, 2, 3], as have governments across the world [4, 5, 6] and other AI experts [7, 8, 9]. Read more
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☑️ #114 May 29, 2024
WAN-IFRA and OpenAI Launch Global AI Accelerator for Newsrooms
wan-ifra.org: [Excerpt] 2024-05-29. WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, has announced today the launch of a broad-based accelerator program for over 100 news publishers in partnership with OpenAI. The Newsroom AI Catalyst is an accelerator program designed to help newsrooms fast-track their AI adoption and implementation to bring efficiencies and create quality content.
The Newsroom AI Catalyst accelerator program is not just about the opportunities; it’s about addressing these challenges. It will assist 128 newsrooms across Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and South Asia. This intensive program combines expert guidance with hands-on experience, equipping newsroom stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to drive strategic AI initiatives. OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT, is funding and providing technical assistance to the initiative.
Order granting 50 and 53 Motions to Dismiss. Signed by Judge Chhabria on 5/24/2024. (vclc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 5/24/2024)
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r/artistHate: The defendants’ motions to dismiss are granted. This order assumes the reader’s familiarity with the facts of the case, the applicable legal standards, and the parties’ arguments.
The plaintiffs’ first amended complaint, which spans almost 200 pages, fails to present “a short and plain statement” showing the plaintiffs are entitled to relief. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2). While the length of a complaint alone is unlikely to result in dismissal, when a complaint is needlessly long and contains largely irrelevant, distracting, or redundant information, dismissal under Rule 8(a) is appropriate. See Cafasso, U.S. ex rel. v. General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc., 637 F.3d 1047, 1058-59 (9th Cir. 2011).
Here, the complaint is not only excessive in length, but also contains swaths of unnecessary and distracting allegations making it nearly impossible to determine the adequacy of the plaintiffs’ legal claims. To cite just a couple of examples, the plaintiffs spend over five pages on how various political leaders and European governments have reacted to recent advancements in AI technology and three-plus pages discussing copyright concerns even though none of the plaintiffs assert a copyright claim. See Dkt. No. 45 at ¶¶ 275-95; 359-68.
In addition to the irrelevant portions of the complaint, the plaintiffs also include rhetoric and policy grievances that are not suitable for resolution by federal courts. See id. at ¶ 9 (comparing AI’s risks to humanity to the risks posed by the development of nuclear weapons); ¶ 535 (requesting injunctive relief in the form of establishing “an independent body of thought leaders” to approve uses of AI products before they are deployed). The development of AI technology may well give rise to grave concerns for society, but the plaintiffs need to understand that they are in a court of law, not a town hall meeting.
Because the Court has no way of telling whether the plaintiffs could adequately state a claim once all the mud is scraped off the walls of the complaint, dismissal is with leave to amend. But if the amended complaint continues to focus on general policy concerns and irrelevant information in a way that interferes with a clear presentation of the legal claims at issue, it will be dismissed with prejudice. Moreover, if the plaintiffs manage to state a claim that gets past the pleading stage, they should know that, given the way the current version of the complaint was drafted, it’s unlikely that they or their counsel can be trusted to adequately and responsibly represent the interests of absent class members in a federal lawsuit. Any amended complaint is due in 21 days. Responses are due 21 days after that.
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☑️ #112 May 22, 2024
A landmark multi-year global partnership with News Corp
openai.com: [Excerpt] We’re joining forces with News Corp to support the highest journalistic standards and enrich our products with its premium journalism.
OpenAI will receive access to current and archived content from News Corp’s major news and information publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily, FN, and New York Post; The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun; The Australian, news.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail, The Advertiser, and Herald Sun; and others. The partnership does not include access to content from any of News Corp’s other businesses.
In addition to providing content, News Corp will share journalistic expertise to help ensure the highest journalism standards are present across OpenAI’s offering.
A landmark multi-year global partnership with News Corp
redditinc.com: [Excerpt] OpenAI will bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and new products, helping users discover and engage with Reddit communities. To do so, OpenAI will access Reddit’s Data API, which provides real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit. This will enable OpenAI’s AI tools to better understand and showcase Reddit content, especially on recent topics.
This partnership will also enable Reddit to bring new AI-powered features to redditors and mods. Reddit will be building on OpenAI’s platform of AI models to bring its powerful vision to life.
Lastly, OpenAI will become a Reddit advertising partner.
segreteria.societari: Hi! downstream from yesterday’s OpenAI live, I wanted to compare with you on which model version is actually the best. GPT-4 or GPT-4o? I’m not interested in image generation, or document/speech analysis, I’m really interested from a hyperparameter point of view, ability to avoid hallucination, understanding and validity of output, in short which one is more reliable in your opinion for a dedicated customer service chatbot? Thank you very much in advance
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Thiago: Contribute to openai/simple-evals development by creating an account on GitHub.
OpenAI Spring Update (2): Ilya and Jan leave OpenAI
@ilyasut: After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the excellent research leadership of @merettm. It was an honor and a privilege to have worked together, and I will miss everyone dearly. So long, and thanks for everything. I am excited for what comes next — a project that is very personally meaningful to me about which I will share details in due time.
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@janleike (ML Researcher, co-leading Superalignment @OpenAI. Optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes.): I resigned
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@E0M: I'm leaving @OpenAI after 3½ yrs. I'll be joining my good friend Andy Barry (Boston Dynamics) + @peteflorence & @andyzeng_ (DeepMind) on a brand new initiative! I think this will be necessary to fully realize AGI in the world and am excited to share more about it soon
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☑️ #108 May 13, 2024
OpenAI Spring Update (1)
@OpenAI: We’ll be streaming live at 10AM PT Monday, May 13 to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.
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☑️ #107 May 10, 2024
Spring Updates
@sama: not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love! feels like magic to me.
monday 10am PT.
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@OpenAI: We’ll be streaming live on http://openai.com at 10AM PT Monday, May 13 to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.
Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419
1:17:35 - Google and Gemini [Transcript] [Excerpt] Google, with the help of search, has been dominating the past 20 years.
I think it's fair to say in terms of the access, the world's access to information, how we interact and so on. And one of the nerve-wracking things for Google, but for the entirety of people
in this space is thinking about how are people going to access information. Like you said, people show up to GPT as a starting point. So is OpenAI going to really take on this thing that Google started 20 years ago, which is how do we get-
- I find that boring. I mean, if the question is if we can build a better search engine than Google or whatever, then sure, we should go... like people should use a better product. But I think that would so understate what this can be. Google shows you like 10 blue links, like 13 ads and then 10 blue links and that's like one way to find information. But the thing that's exciting to me is not that we can go build a better copy of Google Search, but that maybe there's just some much better way to help people find and act on and synthesize information. Actually, I think ChatGPT is that for some use cases and hopefully will make it be like that for a lot more use cases. But I don't think it's that interesting to say like how do we go do a better job of giving you like 10 ranked webpages to look at than what Google does. Maybe it's really interesting to go, say,
how do we help you get the answer or the information you need?
How do we help create that in some cases, synthesize that in others or point you to it and yet others?
But a lot of people have tried to just make a better search engine than Google, and it's a hard technical problem, it's a hard branding problem, it's a hard ecosystem problem. I don't think the world needs another copy of Google.
- And integrating a chat client like a ChatGPT with a search engine.
- That's cooler.
- It's cool, but it's tricky. If you just do it simply, it's awkward because like if you just shove it in there, it can be awkward.
- As you might guess, we are interested in how to do that. Well, that would be an example of a cool thing that's not just like-
- Well, like a heterogeneous, like integrating-
- The intersection of LLMs plus search, I don't think anyone has cracked the code on yet. I would love to go do that. I think that would be cool.
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☑️ #105 May 9, 2024
Leaked Deck Reveals How OpenAI Is Pitching Publisher Partnerships
adweek.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] OpenAI's Preferred Publisher Program offers media companies licensing deals.
Details from the pitch deck
The Preferred Publisher Program has five primary components, according to the deck.
First, it is available only to “select, high-quality editorial partners,” and its purpose is to help ChatGPT users more easily discover and engage with publishers’ brands and content.
Additionally, members of the program receive priority placement and “richer brand expression” in chat conversations, and their content benefits from more prominent link treatments. Finally, through PPP, OpenAI also offers licensed financial terms to publishers.
The financial incentives participating publishers can expect to receive are grouped into two buckets: guaranteed value and variable value.
Guaranteed value is a licensing payment that compensates the publisher for allowing OpenAI to access its backlog of data, while variable value is contingent on display success, a metric based on the number of users engaging with linked or displayed content.
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models
stackoverflow.co: [Transcription] [Excerpt] NEW YORK CITY, NY and SAN FRANCISCO, CA,– May 6, 2024 - Stack Overflow and OpenAI today announced a new API partnership that will empower developers with the collective strengths of the world’s leading knowledge platform for highly technical content with the world’s most popular LLM models for AI development.
Chris Clark, Head of Nonprofit & Strategic Initiatives at OpenAI.
@clarkcr: Almost 8 years at OpenAI, and I’ve never been more proud to work here. Our team remained united throughout this entire ordeal and emerged stronger than ever.
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☑️ #102 Apr 30, 2024
US newspapers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training
reuters.com : [Transcription] [Excerpt] The eight newspapers, owned by investment firm Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group, said in the lawsuit that the companies unlawfully copied millions of their articles to train AI products, including Microsoft's Copilot and OpenAI's ChatGPT.
The complaint follows similar ongoing lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAI, which has received billions in financial backing from Microsoft, brought by the New York Times and news outlets The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet.
Financial Times announces strategic partnership with OpenAI
aboutus.ft.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] The Financial Times today announced a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with OpenAI, a leader in artificial intelligence research and deployment, to enhance ChatGPT with attributed content, help improve its models’ usefulness by incorporating FT journalism, and collaborate on developing new AI products and features for FT readers.
“This is an important agreement in a number of respects,”
“It recognises the value of our award-winning journalism and will give us early insights into how content is surfaced through AI. We have long been a leader in news media innovation, pioneering the subscription model and engagement technologies, and this partnership will help keep us at the forefront of developments in how people access and use information.”
